Oscar Miestchaninoff

Oscar Miestchaninoff carried a tiny camera everywhere, snapping photos of strangers on Paris streets in the 1920s. He shot them mid-step, mid-smile, or mid-grumble, catching faces that never posed for the camera. One of his quickest clicks shows a woman in a polka-dot dress balancing a coffee cup on a tray, her eyes locked on the pour. Find that photo online and zoom in: you’ll see the steam curl before it dissolves.